Hjalmar is one of the characters that had a miss perception of him. Hjalmar's perception of himself was warped into thinking of himself as better or worse then he actually was. Hjalmar comes to think that instead of being fat he is a man because of it. When he talks to Greggers about himself being "stout", as said by Greggers, he comes up with a different meaning from this, he thinks that "stout" could be used for being more of a man. Because he is larger in size, this means that he is more of a man. He also comes to believe that even though on the outside he may be large the inside is better. Through"but the inner man! Believe me, he has a different look"(122) the author shows how Hjalmar talking about how he thinks of himself on the inside as being a better man. That even though his appearance may be off, his inner appearance is by far better than what the other characters, like Greggers, can see. A character who creates a perception for another character is Hedvig. She creates the perception that her father is an amazing photographer and editor instead of seeing what he really is. By doing this Hedvig is setting up a false self perception of her father himself, he lives with thinking that he is an amazing photographer even though he hardly does any work at all. The characters say he is a great photographer and want to help him with his work, he keeps saying he has to work but what happens is that he goes and attempts to work on things but it never gets done.
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